Saturday, January 22, 2011

Fascism with a capital F

What for years Dave Neiwert has been calling eliminationist rhetoric is now apparently filling the minds of millions on a daily basis. The crazed quality of the thinking reminds me of a certain house painter.

As recently as Monday, Beck devoted over seven minutes of his TV show to Piven, repeatedly calling her an "enemy of the Constitution" due to an article she wrote for The Nation in which she praised the demonstrations and civil disobedience that occurred in Britain and Greece in the past few months.

He also included her in a pledge that he asked members of Congress to sign following the Arizona shootings. In it, he compared her to a violent, far-right militia whose members are now in jail for conspiring to overthrow the U.S. government.


the rest at HuffPo

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